Question
This researcher’s claimed breakthrough came as a result of adding carbon to a known superconducting form of hydrogen sulfide. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this researcher who founded Unearthly Materials to commercialize his claims of having a room-temperature semiconductor, which is likely false due to data manipulation.
ANSWER: Ranga Dias
[10m] Dias likely faked data purporting to show this effect diagnostic of superconductivity. In this effect, the superconductor expels a magnetic field and thus can repel magnets.
ANSWER: Meissner Effect [accept Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect]
[10e] This science journal initially published Dias’s papers but later retracted them. This journal and Science are the two most cited journals for STEM research.
ANSWER: Nature
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